A Sweeper-Up After Artists
Subtitle: A Memoir
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: November 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780500238134
Subjects: Biography: general; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; New York (State); Biography; Art Criticism; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; New York; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Painting, American; Sandler, Irving,; United States; 1925-; 20th century; Art critics; Art historians
Description: "For over fifty years Irving Sandler has been a vital presence in the New York art world. Frank O'Hara called him, in a memorable poem, "the balayeur des artistes," the sweeper-up after artists. He has been a friend or acquaintance of virtually every important American artist of the postwar period, and his art criticism and books constitute the first and most comprehensive critical and historical account of this extraordinary period. His personal chronicle is the living memory of the New York art world, from abstract expressionism to the present day."--Jacket.